In the center of NGC 5084, some 80 million light-years away, the supermassive black hole around which the whole galaxy ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a napping monster black hole in the early universe. The cosmic giant is slumbering ...

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...

As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a ...

An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole ...

M87 was the first black hole to be imaged, and now it's revealing details of how some elementary particles are accelerated by ...

Researchers discovered a surprising water-bound black hole with 140 trillion times the water of Earth’s oceans combined.

Astronomers have identified a remarkable water reservoir in deep space, circling a huge quasar more than 12 billion ...

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center ...

"Black holes are not as destructive as we thought. It seems plausible that the detection of planets in the galactic center is ...

Gamma rays are the highest-energy form of electromagnetic radiation, billions of times more energetic than visible light.